Elon Musk’s 2024 concept for social media platform X includes the removal of features and information on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Premium customers are no longer able to upload NFTs as their profile images as a result of the change.
Additionally, all information on NFT profile images has been removed from the company’s help website. While the site was still known as Twitter and was run by a board, X onboarded NFTs for account avatars in January 2022.
Back then, NFTs, which had a hexagonal appearance, could be used as profile photographs for Twitter Blue subscribers. The defacto choices for producing NFTs on Ethereum’s blockchain were ERC-1155 and ERC-721 digital collectables, which users could upload.
Upon clicking on the feature, more details were displayed, such as the contract address of the NFT and the collection to which it belonged.
Musk claimed the company would be better served by fixing its growing bot problem rather than including NFT images. Interestingly, despite Musk’s direction, bots are still a problem on X.
After the decision to remove NFTs on X, users who had hexagon-shaped photographs continued to display collectable blockchain items. It’s unclear if these profile photos will be fully disabled on the platform.
Merely ten months following the announcement of the integration, on March 15, 2023, Meta withdrew support for NFT profile images on Instagram and Facebook.
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